Prius burns on Silver Lake street

SILVER LAKE — Firefighters extinguished a fire early this morning that burned a Prius parked near the corner of Marathon Street and Kodak Drive. It’s not clear what caused the fire that broke out at about 4:40 a.m.

What disturbs me is the thought of all those hazardous materials going into the air and our water supply. One hundred pounds of non-recyclable battery packs (lithium or Nickel hydride) are now in our air and water supply instead of a nice safe 10K year hazmat dump in Utah. UGH!

This isn’t funny to me, what if this was YOUR car?? My Hyundai got torched 2 years ago for no GD reason, other than the guy who confessed to it (and 30 other cars) was fn nuts. But I’m not angry, it’s ok, the Boston Marathon bombing happened a day later and I thought, you know what? I have LEGS! Let’s hope this car’s owner has full insurance and a good attitude as well 🙂

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